On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Fletcher Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > So which one are you using? You seem to be referring to Mercurial, but that's > just a WAG. I am just curious if there is something else out there similar to > Mercurial, that's all.
When I get to make the call, I'm probably going to recommend git, as I've spent a lot of time with the Rubyists, and I'm most familiar with it and its supporting tools. I'm a paying customer of GitHub.com where I contribute to and monitor open source projects, and also have private repositories for client projects. I'm glad to let someone else maintain the internet presence for the repository. We do independent consulting, so it's often the client's call, which is just fine. As I indicated, most of the distributed version control systems are pretty much equivalent, some a bit ahead, some a bit behind. The teams supporting each application work at stealing the good ideas and features from each other. I recently finished up a two-and-a-half year gig where the client used Perforce, a proprietary VCS. It was a learning experience. It was a massive centralized server so when the guys in Taiwan took it down for maintenance, five continents of developers had to wait until they were done. Not a great system. But a recent PHP gig has the original open source framework in Mercurial. It's not a big deal to add the client to my machine and do a couple of quick Googles or a 'man hg' to figure out what to do. So, I've got clients for Perforce (not free), git, mercurial (hg), bazaar (bzr), Subversion, cvs and rcs on this workstation. But I'll push git if I can. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
